Splitting patterns of excellent quadratic forms.
Splitting patterns of excellent quadratic forms.
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优秀二次形式的分裂模式。
DOI:
10.1515/crll.1993.444.183
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发表时间:
1993
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通讯作者:
J. Hurrelbrink
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作者:
U. Rehmann;J. Hurrelbrink
The Splitting pattern of a regulär quadratic form q over a field k of characteristic different from 2 is the sequence of distinct Witt indices of q which may occur after base field extension. For a given regulär form q we define a elass of forms which we call qextensions. We will show that the anisotropic members q of this class all have a Splitting pattern depending only on the dimension of q and on the Splitting pattern of q. This dependency is determined in § 2. For example, Pfister forms are of this type (here we have q = 0); their Witt index is either 0 or maximal. For every form q there are ^-extensions of arbitrarily high dimension. The ^-extensions with dim q ̂ l are precisely the "excellent" forms introduced by Knebusch, who gave a recursive formula for their possible Witt indices in [3], 7.11. In general, the determination of the Splitting pattern of a given quadratic form seems to be very difficult, however, for excellent forms there is an easy way of describing their Splitting patterns; this will be discussed in §2.